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Another theatrical coup is the Sergeant Sacrifice anecdote. "Sergeant Sacrifice," perhaps a grim caricature of U.S.-backed Commander Suicide and his insurgents currently terrorizing Nicaragua, is given a Las Vegas-style introduction. Carried into the theater, a corpse under a blood-stained American flag, he lies still as the glitzy M. C. calls to the audience in the innuendo-filled jargon of show business. "Come on, give him a hand. He has to feel the warmth before he can get up here and perform...
...gain perspective on Central America, the tour members conferred with Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth, whose responsibilities extend to the entire isthmus. They also met with representatives of Central America's rebel movements: an anti-Sandinista leader from Nicaragua, a leftist opposition spokesman from Guatemala, and a dedicated, intelligent advocate for the Salvadoran insurgents, Rubén Zamora. While in Panama, the party was briefed by Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command. A visit to the Canal was especially meaningful for one Newstour participant, Veteran Negotiator Sol Linowitz, who helped accomplish the return...
...Administration faces another difficult selling job in persuading the rebellious Congress to go along with its policy of overt aid to the government of El Salvador and covert help to opponents of the government in Nicaragua. In this foreign policy thicket, Democratic opposition is the most serious obstacle. Still, even the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in March to slash in half the $60 million in military aid that Reagan wants to switch from Morocco to El Salvador. The President has also asked for an additional $50 million in military funds for the Salvadoran government. The Senate committee...
...million transfer of funds. Long wants to pressure the Administration into sending a special envoy to El Salvador. Shultz, just returned from a visit to Mexico, spent 3½ hours answering questions from the House Select Intelligence Committee about the Administration's support of anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua...
...great surprise to hear of American involvement in Nicaragua. The U.S. Government has jumped in to aid the opponents of the Sandinistas in order to gain influence and control over events in the nations to our south. I am just as afraid as the next person of growing Soviet involvement in the region. But the U.S has its hands in too many Central American cookie jars, and, as in Viet Nam, we are bound to get caught in one of them. Jamie A. Lopez Los Altos, Calif...